Laurent Berhaut was born in liege in 1969. He finishes his architecture studies at 21 years old at the Saint Luc institut of Wallonia. After a collaboration with a big architectur office of Liege, he joins Florence Marchal and together, they realised several great works. In 1999, they win the town planning prize of Liege for their home.
Over and above his daily profession, Laurent Berhaut is impassioned in the creation of jewels first as a hobby. Thanks to the Cristallerie du Val Saint Lambert, he launches his first collection called Eclipse. His style combines esthetism, sobriety and technical.
Cimino Antoine
Antoine Cimino est né en 1964.
Maître Verrier depuis 24 ans, il a commencé sa carrière au sein de la
Cristallerie du Val Saint Lambert où il encadre une équipe de verriers. Il
réalise les pièces les plus sophistiquées et complexes en cristal. Les
pièces qu’il produit sont soit soufflées dans des moules, soit soufflées à
main libre. Il compose des pièces volumineuses telles des vases, des coupes,
des sièges mais aussi sa maîtrise de l’art du cristal lui permet de produire
des petites ou grandes, des pièces simples ou complexes et surtout d’allier
les couleurs.
Copers Léo
Leo Copers was born in 1947 in Gent (Belgium), he
lives and works in Wetteren. He combines the shapes with a high symbolic value and present them in away that astonishes and proposes several manners of interpretation.
His work rhymes permanently with bewilderment,
illusion, disproportion. The artist sowsconfusion knowingly.
Delvaux Eric
Eric Delvaux was born on 17th May in 1966 in Liege
(Belgium). Very soon his career was bound with Val
Saint Lambert where he started as master engraver
to become designer in 1998.This designer's influence firts finds its origin in the
Beaux-Arts and in painting in which he finds its first
sources of inspiration and incentives.
This contemporary creator will follow the traces of
such designers as Charles Graffart within the Val
Saint Lambert to put his creativeness then forward
and to give us some pieces with a decidedly modern
tendency such as the service "Emotion", the "Tork"
and "Zebra" sculptures and also the collection amethyst.
Deshays Luc
Pierre Dias was born on 15th September 1936 and
started working in Val Saint Lambert in 1950 as an
apprentice etcher. He has worked with Charles Graffart and realized some projetcs for him.
Pierre Dias undertook studies in drawing and
graphical arts in the "Academie des Beaux arts" in Liege and he also began a course of designer in the
Industrial Design Association of Brussels. There was
another influence in the way of his art, in the name
of Leon Ledru. Pierre Dias developped the well known "Danse de Flore" decor and thanks to masterpieces like that, Belgian and foreign museums as well as private customers acquired
his works.
ge and he also began a course of designer in the
Industrial Design Association of Brussels. There was
another influence in the way of his art, in the name
of L on Ledru. Pierre Dias developped the well known "Danse de Flore" decor and thanks to masterpieces like that, Belgian and foreign museums as well as private customers acquired
his works.
Dias Pierre
Pierre Dias was born on 15th September 1936 and
started working in Val Saint Lambert in 1950 as an
apprentice etcher. He has worked with Charles Graffart and realized some projetcs for him. Pierre Dias undertook studies in drawing and
graphical arts in the "Academie des Beaux arts" in
Liege and he also began a course of designer in the
Industrial Design Association of Brussels. There was
another influence in the way of his art, in the name
of Leon Ledru. Pierre Dias developped the well known "Danse de Flore" decor and thanks to master pieces like that, Belgian and foreign museums as well as private customers acquired
his works.
Doff-Sota Philippe
Philippe Doff-Sota, 35 years old, licence in design at Saint Luc, mastership in design at the university of Helsinki, this scholar of the design has for first vocation to create for interior furniture.
He works on different projects for various firms.Within the framework of Global design which gathers several designers, he came to the Cristallerie du Val Saint Lambert with many projects in the pocket: sculptures, business gifts and trophies.
Captivated by the crystal with its purity and its refraction, he creates Vibration, culbuto crystallized and Sugar, piece combining a smooth side with a chaotic side.
De Sousa Katherine
Katherine De Sousa was born in the United States
in 1952. She creates functional models, such as sets
of table linen, and also sculpture projects which call
more upon creative and interpretation spirit.
She brings to each one of her projects her very
personalized practice of the design, the drawing, the
sculptures as well as the study of the hitoric forms.
Féard Juliette
Graffart Charles
Né en 1893, il entre au Val en 1906
comme apprenti graveur. Il suit les cours de dessin à l’école des
Cristalleries. Elève d’Adrien de Witte à l’académie des Beaux-Arts de Liège,
il aime particulièrement la technique de gravue à la roue qui lui permet de
s’exprimer pleinement. De 1924 à 1929, il crée de nombreuses pièces uniques
(+/-400) jamais égalées. Il devient chef du service des Créations en 1942,
poste qu’il occupera jusqu’à sa retraite en 1958.
Herman Samuel
Samuel Herman was born in 1936 in Mexico.
He followed school at the Western Washington State College and the University of Wisconsin in the USA. He learned his profession as a glass-sculptor at the centre of the Haystack school.
He followed school in 1965-1966 at the Art College of edinburgh in Scotland and in 1966-1967 at the Royal Art College of London where he made some pieces as a teacher.
He produced, as an independant, more than 100 uniques pieces for the crystalfactory of the Val Saint Lambert in October 1970.
Jouret Lloyd
Lloyd Jouret is currently student in the industrial design section at the national high school of Visual Arts of La Cambre in Brussels. He received the third price Bombay Sapphire 2003 on a national level with the glass named Bridge, realised by the Cristallerie du Val Saint Lambert.
From graphism to product design via web design, his objectives remain to create in a right way. This means to find beauty with in idea, form and material and to justify their balance.
Ledru Léon
Artiste parisien de naissance, ancien l
Leibovitz Edward
Samuel Herman was born in 1936 in Mexico.
He followed school at the Western Washington State College and the University of Wisconsin in the USA. He learned his profession as a glass-sculptor at the centre of the Haystack school.
He followed school in 1965-1966 at the Art College of edinburgh in Scotland and in 1966-1967 at the Royal Art College of London where he made some pieces as a teacher.
He produced, as an independant, more than 100 uniques pieces for the crystalfactory of the Val Saint Lambert in October 1970.
Moreau Jeremy
Born in October 1977 in Ottignies, Jeremy Moreau studies the drawing of architecture at the Saint-Luc institute in Brussels, after that he followed courses of design at the national high school of Visual Arts of La Cambre in Brussels.
He receives the first price of Bombay Sapphire 2003 on a national level, classified 4th on an international level at Bombay Sapphire competition of Milan with the Rupture glass realized by the Cristallerie du Val Saint Lambert. This designer likes to bind the artisanal knowledge with the industry, to join authenticity and modernity. He finds in the industrial design matter to fill all his needs for creation.
Petit Elric
Elric Petit was born the 25h January1978.
After obtaining the greatest distinction in industrial design section of La Cambre in Brussels, Elric Petit wins the .Belgium young designer price. edition 2003 with his work on the .Disconnection. topic and gains, as First Price, a training course at IKEA in Sweden.
peine 25 years old, he is selected to carry out the trophy of Caus 2003, owned by the Prom th a Foundation, which is given to a belgium firm. This trophy has been producted by the Cristallerie du Val Saint Lambert.
Royen Jacques
Jacques Royen was born on 20th October 1965 in
Liege (Belgium). It is since 1988 that this designer
exercises his talents within Val Saint Lambert
where he started his career as an engraver.Very soon, his interest for the design appeared.
His studies at the academy of Beaux-arts
allowed him to refine his art while keeping
his decidedly modern and contemporary conduct line.
Jacques Royen creates unique trophies, services of
glasses, vases and other success pieces at Val
Saint Lambert.
Sipek Boris
Boris Sipek was born in 1949 in Prague.
He studied design at the Artschool of Prague, he started studies of architect in 1969 in Hamburg, after that he followed courses of filosophy in Stuttgart. As an architect, he teaches from 1979 till 1983 at the university of Essen.
He received an architect award for his glass house. You can find his work in several museums (New York, Prague, Paris, ...)
He design for the crystalfactory the vase Terpsichore, the vase Clio and the beautiful bowl Hyacintos.
Starck Philippe
Philippe Starck was born on 18th January 1949
in Paris where he works and resides. Very soon he
showed his enthusiasm for design, probably
inspired by his father who was an aircraft designer.
Philippe Starck is one of the best-known
contemporary designers in the world. Much of
his work that was created in the 1980's and 1990's
was influenced among others by fashion. Today, his
approach to design seems to have changed...
Szekely Martin
The designer Martin Szekely lives and works in Paris, he uses his reserches in different universes: industrial design for large scale projects, creation of luxury objects and personal research, which we can admire in the Galery Kreo in Paris.
In 1989, he imagines for the Cristallerie du Val Saint Lambert, the vase .Nord., sorte d.antithese du vase ainsi que le coupe .Sylvia..
Portrait of Martin Szekely by Peter Capellmann.
.Today, I see my work as detached from the
expressionism of the drawing. This idea grew out of my experience in industrial design which is directed at the broadest possible public. My aim is to achieve an economy in the result which can.t even be defined as minimalist: a commonplace..
Verstockt Mark
Mark Verstockt was born at Lokeren, he lives and
works in Antwerp. He studied at the Royal Fine Art
Academy and Institut of Antwerp. After his studies, his art evolved quickly to a geometry born of a desired process of purification, allowing the
elimination of any superfluity.
His goal was always to approch art as much as
possible to the society, to place it in the public
middle of the everyday life.
In 1955, he received the price of the Province of
Antwerp for the totality of his work which signed
the beginning of an international recognition.
Yenawine Peter Wayne
Zoritchak Yan
Born in 1944 in Zdiar (Zlovakia), graduated from the School of Apllied Arts of Pargue.
Sculptor on glass, he masters the thechniques of crystal cutting polishing and decoration.
He is a well known participant in many art exhibitions in europe as Paris, Annecy, Liege, etc...
Since 1976, he intermittently works in Val Saint Lambert workshops to pursue his search for innovation.
Frans Van Praet
Born in 1937 in Sint-Amands at the Scheldt (Belgium), he studied as a modeller at Dendermonde and also sculpture at the Academy. He took his degree in interior architecture and design at the St-Luc Institute in Brussels. In 1965, he created his own research department in Dessel. Since 1979, he works for the industry, creating furniture. In 1987, he received the Award Design. Since 1991, he lives and works in Antwerp. In 1992, he created the general concept of the interior architecture and the furniture of the Belgian pavilion at the World Exhibition in Sevilla, Spain. He created the Val tabouret, a seat in crystal for Val Saint Lambert. In 2007, he created the Val Bar. The concept behind all his activities is the search for hamonics between the individual and his environment in a functional perspective. For him, the ancient Egyptian canon is an important guideline.
Ronald van der Hilst
Landscape architect - designer living and working in Antwerp. Born in 1965 in Enschede in the Netherlands, he studies two years at the Academy of Visual Arts option esthetics and design and obtains his degree of landscape architect at the Royal Highschool Larenstein in Boskoop in the Netherlands. He has two passions : architecture and gardens, tulips. In 1998, he creates his own office and organises open doors around the theme of the tulip. In 2000 and 2001, he consecutively wins awards in Antwerp for his exceptional city gardens. In 2005, he creates for the Cristallerie du Val Saint Lambert the bulb vase destinated for the tulip and presented for the first time in the Botanic Garden of the city Antwerp. In 2007, he creates the chandeliers grapillon, grappe, ombellifère, artichaut, prêle,... that will be presented in exclusivity by Val Saint Lambert at the fair Ambiente in Frankfurt.
This 30-year old Frenchman of Indian origin graduated from the Industrial Design High School of Paris.Fascinated by decorative arts and perfumery, he began his career by drawing jewellery and perfume bottles for prestigious brands such as Hermes and Dior. He extends his style to lighting and tableware. His own jewellery collection in sterling silver is distributed by the jeweller Arthus-Bertrand.In 2007, in collaboration with Val Saint Lambert, he presents the cactus in crystal, naïve in its form, translucent in its colour. He surprises by confronting both the simplicity of nature and the work of a childhood theme, comics, through a noble material : crystal. The emanations of incense give an iconoclast character to this sculpture and refer to the search of the artificial paradise, the idolatry, the totem. Confrontation of the holy and the profane.
Yves Maëro
Born in 1960 in Gap (France), he keeps from his studies at the Boulle school in Paris his interest for all art domains and methods. Even though he works mostly for different huge companies, he writes his ideas in notebooks where they wait their time. In 2007 he presents his collection of paperweights to Val Saint Lambert. On his desk, a parcel of dream from the art of crystal to the topiary art. For garden lovers, three geometric paperweights in pure crystal : cone, cylinder, ball. Classic pruning of the gardens à la française on your desk. Also some fantasy with the charming but also sharp hen that makes you wanting to manipulate her and reminds us of our childhood.
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